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About you and this role
The Dow Chemical Company has an opening for a Senior Controllers Coordinator – Contract Administrator for Dow’s Consolidated Insurance Subsidiaries, located at the company’s World Headquarters in Midland, Michigan.
In this position, you will play a fundamental role in assisting in financial management of fortuitous risk outcomes in the Dow insurance subsidiaries’ treaty reinsurance underwriting portfolio. The successful candidate will work closely with underwriting and accounting teams, as well as insurance intermediaries, for treaty reinsurance business, analyzing and capturing the performance of treaty insurance contracts. The Dow insurance subsidiaries participate in domestic reinsurance markets and work closely with Dow Corporate Risk Management to help finance portions of the Company’s fortuitous risks. They are domiciled and regulated in multiple states, have invested assets of more than $2.5 Billion, and are led by Dorinco Reinsurance Company holding an AM Best “A” rating with over $700 Million of revenue and $1.7B of admitted assets. This is an excellent opportunity to learn and apply your finance, analytical, and relationship management skills, as well as insurance industry experience to help in the management of insurance underwriting activities for Dorinco’s treaty reinsurance business.
Responsibilities
- At the direction of the Vice President of Insurance Operations, and in conjunction with the Underwriting and Controllers teams, interpret and analyze numerous contracts of reinsurance to ensure that premium and loss accounting information received for the reinsured (or their agent) follows the terms of the reinsurance agreement.
- Within the same framework, determine and communicate to reinsurance broker any faulty or missing data on monthly/quarterly reinsurance accounts (invoices) to ensure that appropriate information is supplied to Captive to ensure accurate and complete financial reporting.
- Analyze and monitor loss and unearned premium reserves to ensure that the company has accurately represented its liabilities in its financial reports.
- Compare payment requests against contract terms and current balances to ensure the appropriate distribution of Captive assets. Also, determine status of outstanding balances with liquidating insurance companies to assist in special payment agreements.
- Analyze contract activity to provide information for technical inquiries from Captive’s various functional areas and stakeholders, including the codification of information received in many different formats into a single, usable format for the use of stakeholders in making business decisions.
- Provide accurate financial data to be interfaced into Dow’s accounting system to ensure the appropriate representation of Captive’s portion of Dow’s overall assets and liabilities.
- Audit receivables for delinquent accounts, issue payment notices, and monitor information on credit status of debtors.
- Driving the payment authorization process for adjustments/settlements through the contract administration process.
Ideal candidates will have an exceptional track record of performance in reinsurance contract administration to contribute mastery of the business to support the company’s operations, reporting, and controls. Prior experience specifically in quota share reinsurance contracts is desirable. Other high performing employees may be considered who have demonstrated the required characteristics and have experience in a related field.
Successful candidates for this position should be passionate about team engagement, operations and technology with a focus on achieving business success. They should be naturally curious with a desire for continuous learning, have excellent fundamental analytical skills, interpersonal effectiveness, and ability to communicate clearly and concisely, as well as being resourceful self-starters with a strong bias to action, anticipating requirements and able to act with a sense of urgency, have excellent project management and organizational skills and drive projects to completion by their deadlines, take responsibility/accountability for their results, have excellent attention to detail, have a positive proactive attitude and work well as part of a team to collaborate for company success.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of an Associate’s Degree or 3 years or more of military training/experience.
- A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.
Preferred Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree or higher education is preferred.
- 3 or more years of work experience in insurance contract administration or similar preferred.
- Insurance Designations.
- Insurance Industry Experience.
Skills
- Communication: Demonstrate the ability to clearly and confidently convey information in both verbal and written formats.
- Analytical Thinking: Ability to assess complex information, identify patterns, and draw meaningful insights.
- Reinsurance: Deep understanding of reinsurance principles, structures, and market practices.
- Task Organization: Maintain clear systems for tracking activities, deliverables, and follow‑ups to avoid oversight and ensure timely completion of work.
Additional Notes
Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
Benefits – What Dow offers you
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Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
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About Dow
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